Bill Text: IL HB0200 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Requires a school board to work in concert with the Illinois High School Association to develop guidelines and other pertinent information and forms to inform and educate coaches, student athletes, and these athletes' parents and guardians of the nature and risk of concussions and head injuries, including continuing to play after a concussion or head injury. Requires the concussion and head injury information sheet to be signed and returned by a student athlete and the athlete's parent or guardian prior to the student athlete's initiating practice or competition. Provides that a school board shall adopt a policy requiring a student athlete who is suspected of sustaining a concussion or head injury in a practice or game to be removed from competition at that time. Requires the policy to provide that a student athlete who has been removed from play may not return to play until the student athlete is evaluated by a licensed health care provider trained in the evaluation and management of concussions and head injuries and the student athlete receives written clearance to return to play from that health care provider.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2011-07-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0204 [HB0200 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB0200-Amended.html

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Rep. Tom Cross

Filed: 2/17/2011

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 200
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 200 as follows:
by replacing line 14 on page 2 through line 7 on page 3 with the
following:
"(b) Each school board shall adopt a policy regarding
student athlete concussions and head injuries that is in
compliance with the protocols, policies, and by-laws of the
Illinois High School Association. Information on the school
board's concussion and head injury policy must be a part of any
agreement, contract, code, or other written instrument that a
school district requires a student athlete and his or her
parents or guardian to sign before participating in practice or
interscholastic competition.
(c) The Illinois High School Association shall make
available to all school districts, including elementary school
districts, education materials, such as visual presentations
and other written materials, that describe the nature and risk

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of concussions and head injuries. Each school district shall
use education materials provided by the Illinois High School
Association to educate coaches, student athletes, and parents
and guardians of student athletes about the nature and risk of
concussions and head injuries, including continuing play after
a concussion or head injury."; and
by replacing line 14 on page 4 through line 6 on page 5 with the
following:
"(b) The board shall adopt a policy regarding student
athlete concussions and head injuries that is in compliance
with the protocols, policies, and by-laws of the Illinois High
School Association. Information on the board's concussion and
head injury policy must be a part of any agreement, contract,
code, or other written instrument that the school district
requires a student athlete and his or her parents or guardian
to sign before participating in practice or interscholastic
competition.
(c) The Illinois High School Association shall make
available to the school district education materials, such as
visual presentations and other written materials, that
describe the nature and risk of concussions and head injuries.
The school district shall use education materials provided by
the Illinois High School Association to educate coaches,
student athletes, and parents and guardians of student athletes
about the nature and risk of concussions and head injuries,

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including continuing play after a concussion or head injury.".